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March 10, 2022
GOOD AND HARD: Biden administration to extend federal mask mandate. “The federal mask mandate will be extended for another 30 days, to April 18, representing the fourth extension of the mandate for public transit, airplanes, and airports that was first introduced in February 2021. While the largest union of flight attendants said it had ‘every expectation’ the mandate would be extended, airline industry and business groups have lobbied against it for months.”
YES: I’ll Take Trump’s Gas Prices Over Biden’s ‘Roaring Economy’ Any Day.
It’s almost comical to consider how Biden proudly and delusionally compared himself to his predecessor, under whom gas prices lived in the $2.00 territory — especially when you consider that Trump’s predictions about Biden being a presidential disaster have proved to be spot-on.
Donald Trump’s tax cuts only helped the rich, Biden said during his address, and now anyone earning less than $400,000 a year doesn’t have to pay any more in taxes. Buying American products is a priority, he added, and my tax plan will lower costs. Oh, and our economy has roared back since my administration took the reins.
Americans didn’t need Glenn Kessler fact-checking these statements to rightly conclude that they’re lies; they feel it at work, the grocery store, and the gas pump. The exorbitant price of fuel sure doesn’t feel like the result of a “made in America” pledge, nor does it feel like a tax cut or a roaring economy.
Even more laughable than Biden’s obvious Pinocchios, however, is how right our ex-president was about the realities of what a Biden presidency would bring.
Don’t forget, we’re still more than two million jobs short of where we were before the (unnecessary) COVID lockdowns crashed the economy.
THIS IS INTERESTING: High Point University To Open Law School In 2024; Dean Has Been Hired And Will Be Announced In May.
Why another law school? Well, this one sounds like it’s going to be different from the run of the mill: “We tell everybody that we are a God, family, country school and if that bothers you, we respect that, but this may not be the school for you. The more I say that, the more families just beat a path to this institution.”
It’s an underserved niche, to say the least. And hey, if the amenities for faculty are as lavish as they famously are for students at High Point, I might be interested. . . .
TREATING CANCER WITH A BANDAID: Biden to Raid Strategic Petroleum Reserve Again.
FROM ME: The Age of the Judicial Thoroughbred.
It’s a review of Ben Barton’s The Credentialed Court.
CACKLE DIPLOMACY: Roger Kimball: Kamala invades Poland.
You can tell that the Biden administration is getting serious. They have unleashed their ultimate weapon, cackle diplomacy. The warhead is nicknamed Harris, and it is now in Poland cackling away, endeavoring to assemble the high-level Pierogis before Russia flattens Kyiv or Putin decides to go nuclear — and by “go nuclear,” alas, I mean “go nuclear.”
Some observers say that sending Kamala Harris on this mission will give her a chance to “burnish” her foreign policy credentials. Cynical folks — and I would include myself in that group — think it is just another emission of fog by America’s first certifiably senile administration.
“Ukraine is a country in Europe,” Harris recently explained to universal hilarity, “it exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So, basically, that’s wrong, and it goes against everything that we stand for.”
Did I mention that the hilarity was laced with feelings of appalled panic? This, after all, was the vice president of the United States.
Our leadership has gone from comically bad to tragically bad in the space of a month.
Related: The world’s weak leadership isn’t up to the Ukraine crisis.
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Texas election commissioner resigns after 10,000 uncounted ballots found in last week’s primary.
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: “It’s Appalling:” In Hilarious Reversal, Biden Admin Now Slams Shale For Not Raising Output.
… now that gas prices are the highest on record and the Biden administration is flailing, its approval rating crushed by soaring gas prices and desperately pointing the finger at Putin or any other feces that will stick to the wall, suddenly the president is going for a full U-turn and hoping that everyone has been sufficiently neuralized to forget that on the very first day of his administration, the 79 year old president ordered the closure of the Keystone XL pipeline (in a hilariously titled Executive Order called “Executive Order on Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis“) and froze new drilling leases while pushing for disastrous initiatives that centered on clean energy.
So fast forward to today when ignoring over one year of catastrophic policies, the U.S. State Department’s senior energy security adviser Amos Hochstein – seeing the freefall in White House approval ratings – turned that tables hoping that most Americans are idiots instead of only half, and said that shale companies choosing not to reinvest massive profits into higher production growth at a time of war is “appalling.”
Hammered by policies that discourage evil investments boosting “fossil fuel” output, and under pressure from activist investors to boost cash flows after a decade of weak returns, many publicly traded explorers are limiting production growth to no more than 5%. But that is suddenly at odds with the Biden administration’s efforts to curb soaring inflation and energy prices at home.
So after a year of trying to defang domestic energy companies, the White House – whose Fed Vice Chair candidate Sarah Bloom Raskin even went so far as suggesting to starve energy companies of capital – is now asking producers to raise oil supply to replace Russian crude flows after Biden banned oil imports from the country.
In other words, while yesterday it was Putin’s fault, now it is the fault of shale companies according to an administration that will always find blame anywhere it looks except its own devastating policies.
Related: Peter Doocy Humiliates Psaki Over Gas Prices, and It’s Glorious.
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https://twitter.com/MattHennessey/status/1501701424203378698
THE UKRAINE WAR, PAID FOR BY AMERICA’S ENVIRONMENTALISTS: Trump Was Right About Dependence on Russian Oil.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Former professor pleads guilty to committing over $1 million in fraud.
A former engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has pleaded guilty on charges that involve defrauding foreign students out of money “through materially false promises and representations.”
“Beginning in approximately April 2016 and continuing through at least November 2020,” a Department of Justice press release reads, former engineering professor Yue Liu “devised and executed a scheme to defraud” in which he “fraudulently obtained more than $1.1 million from foreign students and visiting professors.”
“Liu promised foreign students that they would be part of a program run by an entity he controlled, which would pay expenses associated with their studies at UWM, including tuition and other costs,” the press release continues.
Liu created a business entity which he named UW International Education Foundation LLC in 2016, and in 2017 he renamed it Wisconsin International Education LLC, according to the February 2022 plea agreement.
“In reality, there was no such program affiliated with UWM, and UWM waived the students’ tuition because they were research assistants,” the press release states.
“Liu did not use the money from the students to pay their tuition and other expenses. Instead, he used a portion of the money he received for personal purposes, including to fund investment accounts and to pay credit card expenses.”
To be fair, this doesn’t sound that much worse than what universities routinely do in recruiting students and athletes. . . .
DEAL OF THE DAY: NEENCA Professional Knee Brace,Knee Compression Sleeve Support. #CommissionEarned
PUTTING OUT FIRE WITH GASOLINE: Congress Plans To Spend $1.5 Trillion This Year, Continues To Pretend the Deficit Doesn’t Matter.
Previously: Two quick ways to decrease inflation are to increase interest rates and really drop the level of government spending. The second will work better than the first.
VIA A FRIEND: “They’re now calling the high price of gas ‘Biden’s new lockdown.’”
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Dems in Disarray Are Calling Their Retreat ‘Cursed.’
EMERGENCY ENDS AS CRISIS OPPORTUNITIES EBB: Boston rescinds COVID public health emergency declaration nearly 2 years after it started. Two weeks to flatten the curve!
KEVIN DOWNEY JR: Gas Attack: Families Struggle to Make Ends Meet yet Lefties Refuse to Call Out Biden. “The price of gas is insane. Your liberal sister-in-law is blaming Putin’s invasion of Ukraine for the price hike. But facts are kryptonite to our bolshie friends and family.”
I HAVE A WORKING MEMORY. IT’S BRANDON ALL THE WAY DOWN: ‘The Memo has Gone Out’: The Left, ABC News Puppet Biden’s Claim That High Gas is ‘Putin’s Price Hike’.
MARK PULLIAM: Ivy League Justice.
It’s a review of Ben Barton’s The Credentialed Court.
SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST: Winter ‘bomb cyclone’ expected to hit East Coast this weekend.
(Classical reference in headline.)
NO. NEXT QUESTION? Is this, finally, Kamala Harris’ moment?
TRANSNATIONAL ELITES HATE THIS: Ukraine Shows We Live in a Nationalist World.
The whole point of being a transnational elite is avoiding accountability.
IS THE NEW YORK TIMES A LIBERAL NEWSPAPER? OF COURSE IT IS: We Will Forget Much of the Pandemic. That’s a Good Thing.
With luck, in the months and years ahead, the threat of the virus will abate and we will be able to let go of the fear that for many of us has been a near-constant companion over the past two years. With hope, the terrifying images of the pandemic’s ravages — the empty streets and crowded hospitals, the funeral pyres and freezer trucks — will cease to loom so large in our collective memory.
Forgetting some of this fear will allow us to more clearly recall the details we want to remember. For me, those include the astonishing resilience, bravery and sense of collective spirit that emerged two years ago this week as my hometown became an epicenter of this pandemic. Those memories make me hopeful for the future.
No one should forget what the government put us through for the past two years.
(Classical reference in headline.)